Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-06-16

idence to See in the mesger plurality of
1,947 in the state of New York won.
derfal expression Of Divine will, espe>
cially when there is reason to believe
that this margin Was the result of ex-
pert counting.
The Democratic party, with the usu>
fruct OF fraud in the government-the
work of murder perfected-displsys its
spirit and purpose in excluding from
the union the giant Territory Of Dakota.
where there are more voters than came
in with any new state, and Republican
majority as large as thut of Iowa before
it was demOralized by the inebriates Of
prohibition. The reason Is plain. The
boss class of the solid south hold that
they have corner on the government
and they are desperately against allow
ing the margin by which they hold it to
be reduced by even so maay as half
dozen votes. They are resolved to miss
no chances.
In this situation the Democratic party
comes before the country and claims
sverything-demands the next Presi-
deocy in the name of reform, and the
senate and the house and the supreme
court; and if they get all, the true char
acter Of the party organization will ap-
pear Ali DISCUSSES will be thrown off
then. The same trucking crowd that
are now meek before the solid south and
that denounce the 0bjectors to the acute
infamy We have described as agitators,
will advocate compensation for slaves,
payment of claims for war damages,
pensions for the confederates with ma
tionals, the assumption of the state
debts of the south incurred in war for
the destruction of the Republic. Why
not? They are warranted by all the
rules of logic.
What then would hinder? A new su-
preme court would remove all legal
objections. The pusillanimous people
who shout "bloody shirt" at every asser-
tion of national sentiment and assump>
tion of the supremacy of the national
cause. would go in for plunder In the
name of equalization; and yet there are
nowardly time-servers affecting philOsoi
ply, rushing about peddling pitiful per
sonaIities with regard 10 the Presidency,
tickling themselves with conceits of the
greatness of the fraud Cleveland. ready
to wallow in his peculiar purity and
spattering goodness; and who want
more of it. and are ready to condemn
the citizens-who stand for the consti~
tuition as it is and fair play for those
who were the friends of the union in the
time of peril, and believe that there are
still duties to perform that the sucri6ces
of the war shall not have been made
worse than in vsin-why. even this type
of nsSriotism that one would think
should not be held to be remarkable or
distinguished, but proclaimed as COM
mon place. is regarded by the frauds in
power, ,and the fools wbO believe in them
and the tyranical satraps who use them,
as form of sectioDslism-as something
that offends the bosses who feel that
they have the Presidency in a corner
and hold the country with a string; and
there is a reproduction here of the su>
percilious. tauntiDg desperate regard
with which those who in other days per-
soniied the slave power, confronted
citizens who dared at least to believe
that the soil that was free should res
main so. The solid south is no less
menace than slavery was.-Cin. Com.
G aZette